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24 sats \ 2 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 23h \ parent \ on: What To Do about Homelessness Politics_And_Law
That is a good question, but who ever heard of the state leaving these sorts of decisions to the actual consumers, themselves? It won’t happen because THEY feel they are doing the best for other people who cannot do the best for themselves.
Best quotes by C. S. Lewis Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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35 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 23h
It seems like the closest to deregulation is when a new product enters the market that does what regulations are preventing and it gets adopted too rapidly to outlaw it.
Uber comes to mind. The way that company rolled out p2p rideshares will be a legendary piece of free market history.
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65 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 23h
Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan did some radical deregulation in the transportation industries that worked out well. The airlines and trucking were reformed to make them useful to the shippers. I think that sort of massive deregulation would be possible if the people of the state demanded it, however, they sometimes prefer to have the regulations in place because they stifle competition in the housing prices.
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